The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday demanded the resignation of Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharati over his indictment by a CBI court for allegedly influencing a witness in a bank fraud case. Speaking to reporters here, BJP state-unit president Vijay Goel said though Aam Aadmi Party talks about honesty their own minister is trying to […]
A researcher at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science here has become the first Indian to win the “Young Investigator Award” from a renowned international scientific organisation. Inorganic chemistry researcher Abhishek Dey has been selected for this year’s honour by the Society of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines. The society was formed in 2000 to […]
The US has offered no help to India as far as bringing most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim back from Pakistan is concerned, former home secretary R.K. Singh, who has now joined the BJP, said Monday. In an interview to CNN-IBN channel, R.K. Singh said: “Firstly, if a third country’s intelligence agency is agreeing to help […]
The admission process for nursery classes in the city’s private schools which was to start Jan 15, was Monday deferred by two days after some schools moved the Delhi High Court saying the new guidelines were “arbitrary”. Unaided private schools appealed the single judge order which refused to stay the government notification on the criteria […]
The AAP, which made a stunning debut in the Delhi assembly polls, is likely to impact the Congress’s fortunes the most in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, a survey by ABP News-Nielsen in Delhi and Mumbai said Monday. According to the snap poll, in Mumbai and Thane the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party combine is likely to […]
The Shyamal Sen Commission, set by West Bengal’s Mamata Banerjee government to probe the Saradha group chit fund scam and recommend ways of returning money to the depositors, Monday ordered auction of the group’s three television channels so as to repay the investors. “Three channels of the Saradha group — Tara Muzik, Tara News and […]
India and Sri Lanka Monday released 52 fishermen each, as part of a goodwill gesture to tide over an issue that has caused tension in ties. The move was announced in New Delhi by External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin. The move comes ahead of the Tamil festival of Pongal and a meeting between the […]
The council, staff and friends of the National Ethnic Disability Alliance (NEDA), would like to take this opportunity to welcome all our friends and supporters to 2014; we wish you all a prosperous year ahead and hope that your Christmas was a safe and enjoyable time with friends, family and loved ones. In this year NEDA will continue […]
Seven masked men robbed Rs.25 lakh from a dry fruit merchant’s shop in broad daylight Monday and stabbed an employee who resisted them, police said. The daring incident, which got over in 20 minutes, took place around 4 p.m. in Khari Bawli in Old Delhi. “The masked men entered Suresh Chandra Mittal’s shop and grabbed […]
With Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade back in India and a US diplomat sent back to America in a reciprocal gesture, India and the US look all set to resume business as usual. In fact, both sides are holding an event in the very place where it all started – New York. On Tuesday, the consulate […]